The Giants have been my favorite NL team for basically my whole life, but my rather recent and serious ex-girlfriend is from the Bay Area and loves the Giants, so I have a kind of weird passive-aggressive ambivalence to them right now.

"Genius is not replicable. Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform — and even just to see, close up, power and aggression made vulnerable to beauty is to feel inspired and (in a fleeting, mortal way) reconciled."
--David Foster Wallace, () "Roger Federer as Religious Experience"